Job 27:18
BSB · Public Domain (CC0)“The house he built is like a moth’s cocoon, like a hut set up by a watchman.”
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BSBPD
“The house he built is like a moth’s cocoon, like a hut set up by a watchman.”
Berean Standard Bible · Public Domain (CC0)KJVPD
“He buildeth his house as a moth, and as a booth that the keeper maketh.”
King James Version · Public DomainASVPD
“He buildeth his house as the moth, And as a booth which the keeper maketh.”
American Standard Version · Public DomainYLTPD
“He hath built as a moth his house, And as a booth a watchman hath made.”
Young's Literal Translation · Public DomainCross references
Other passages that echo Job 27:18 — 5 related verses from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.
- Job 8:14His confidence is fragile; his security is in a spider’s web.
- Isaiah 1:8And the Daughter of Zion is abandoned like a shelter in a vineyard, like a shack in a cucumber field, like a city besieged.
- Isaiah 38:12My dwelling has been picked up and removed from me like a shepherd’s tent. I have rolled up my life like a weaver; He cuts me off from the loom; from day until night You make an end of me.
- Isaiah 51:8For the moth will devour them like a garment, and the worm will eat them like wool. But My righteousness will last forever, My salvation through all generations.”
- Lamentations 2:6He has laid waste His tabernacle like a garden booth; He has destroyed His place of meeting. The LORD has made Zion forget her appointed feasts and Sabbaths. In His fierce anger He has despised both king and priest.
Cross-reference data: Treasury of Scripture Knowledge (public domain) via OpenBible.info (CC BY 4.0).
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